Who's Your Daddy????

Thursday's Thought

It's crazy how so many seem to believe and accept this idea that a child and family doesn't need a father/daddy in the home.  How sad and delusional.  It's sad because every child raised without that father/daddy in the home statistically faces a more difficult road to success.  It's delusional because most times, government agencies, family and friends are used to replace what was claimed to not be needed.

I coach high school sports and have come across so many young men lacking a father in the home and had mothers pretty much look to the coaching staff to 'teach their sons to be men'.  Many have been in financial situations where they are dependent on the government to feed, house, educate and raise their children.  Then you hear them talk about their decision to have another child out of wedlock because the first child deserved a sibling or they always wanted to have their kids close together.  WTF?  How about wanting your child to have an active and engaged father?  What about your child or children being raised in a home not dependent on government?  What about providing your child the best possible opportunity to be successful by providing them with a stable loving home environment.

It becomes a matter of what came first, the chicken or the egg, when examining if society has lead our dysfunctional policies or if dysfunctional policies have created our current society.  Regardless of the order, I believe that too many of our current policies have long lasting and negative impacts on the idea of families and raising children.  The government has supplanted the father in the home by jailing, killing, and branding men unnecessary.  I mean who needs a man when the government will send me a check?  Who needs a daddy when I got sisters and girlfriends?  Who needs a father when the government will tell me right from wrong and the police will protect us?

Now I am not saying any of these things are not welcomed and needed in society and in the realm of child rearing.  What I am saying is that while they are used to fill the void left by the lack of a man being around, nothing listed above can truly replace a FATHER!

DUFGTBAF!!!